Friday April 3 2037.

It was warmer than usual for early April weather. The sunlit hallways of the high school made the school eighty degrees inside. Students (and teachers) were upset that the automatic AC's in the school were broken and wouldn't be fixed until over the weekend and early into the following week. Until then, many students and teachers used fans to keep cool or have the windows opened to get a beachy wind blow into the classroom from the beach a single mile away. It would be faint at times, but worth it.

Almost nobody was sitting outsite for lunch. Sans two students, making out under a tree, waiting for their third friend to come along and be with them for lunch.

"Where's that stupid cousin of mine?"

"She said she'd be here soon, Evie."

"Ralfie, she's gone AWOL. I knew it." Fifteen year old Evie Hunter Foster laughed, pulling her long red hair into a high messy bun. She brushed down her white ruffle dress with cherry decorated print and turned around to search for her cousin again. "See her yet?"

Ralf Dankworth, sixteen, squinted and saw the female walking towards them. "That's her." He said. He leaned back onto the chair and crossed his ankles. "Your favorite cousin in the entire world. My other best friend."

"COLLEEN! GET YOUR ASS OVER HERE, STUPID BITCH!" Evie screamed at the top of her lungs.

Colleen Adams Foster Hunter came walking to to the shaded tree with a large smile on her face. "Keep screaming like that and you'll lose your voice." Colleen said down next to her cousin and friend.

"I will not."

Colleen rolled her eyes playfully. Sixteen, almost seventeen, but mature like she's thirty. Colleen was a beautiful mix of her parents. Passionate and cocky like her father Jamie, compassionate and loyal like her mother Callie. She had mother's brown eyes but her father's curly hair. Her hair being a medium sandy brown color was a mystery on its own but Callie had always guessed it came from her side of the family from her biological father.

"We're going to the movies tonight. Wanna come along?" Ralf asked her. "We're catching the re-release of either Little Shop of Horror—"

"Or Mamma Mia!" Evie finished. "You can be the tie breaker."

Colleen shrugged. "I don't know. Maybe. My parents said if they got home early tonight than we'd go out for family dinner."

"What time would dinner be?"

"We probably would head out around six and finish by eight."

"Okay. The movies are going to start at nine, each of them. So they could just drop you off at the theater on the way back from dinner. My dad was already planning on picking me up from the movies—OH!" Evie's eyes lit up. "Sleepover! That way my dad will only have to pickup and drive home. I've got pj's you and wear and you can borrow an outfit for tomorrow."

"Sounds like a plan for me. Now here's the real question," Colleen cocky smile happened. "Is this really a movie or is it a club around the corner from the theater?"

In union both Ralf and Evie said, "A club!"

"I got us fake I.D's from my cousin Melvin." Ralf reached into his backpack and pulled one out. "I just used our recent school ID pictures and Melvin minipulated them to make us look at least twenty-two or twenty-three. "As long as we just chew gum and don't drink too much we'll be okay and not get caught.

Colleen thought about it. It didn't sound like a bad idea. It sounded nice actually. Plus the club would only be around the corner from the movie theater and they were not going to drink at all. "Sounds like a plan."

At home Colleen was upstairs in her bedroom finding something to wear. So far she had on a sapphire blue tank top, black high-waist skinny jeans and silver ballet flats with silver laces to tie up her ankle. She put her hair into a high ponytail with a sequin pink scrunchy and re-did her makeup so it was light for dinner, but a bit of a party worthy for the club if she was able to attend.

"Anyone home?"

"Upstairs!" Colleen called back down. She tossed on her cropped ivory cardigan and made her way out of the room.

"Hey Colleen?"

Colleen looked at the bedroom across from hers to find her thirteen year old brother, Lanny, standing at the door. Lanny had been fostered by Callie and Jamie for a year before being formally adopted two years ago. He had contact with his birth mother, Scarlett, by visiting her on the weekends now that she was out of the hospital and rehab and doing well with her drug abuse recovery.

"Tell mom I'll be downstairs in a minute."

"Okay. No issue."

"Why are you dressed so fancy?"

"For a movie, silly. I'm going to the movies with Evie and Ralf."

Colleen got down the bottom of the stairs and rounded the corner to head into the kitchen in the back of the house. She walked in to find her mom putting groceries away and her tiny four year old brother, Jimmy, at the table with a toy truck he was obsessed with carrying. Colleen ruffled his straight brown hair and leaned up against the counter of the kitchen. "Lanny will be down in a minute." She spotted the newly poured coffe her mother had made and grasped it. "Where's Dad?"

"He'll be home in a half hour."

"Okay. Are we still going out to dinner?"

"Yeah." Callie turned around spotting how dressed up her daughter was. "Why so fancy?"

"Evie and Ralf invited me to a movie tonight. It's starting at nine." Colleen told her. "After dinner could you drop me off at the theater?"

"What movie?"

"Still deciding between Little Shop of Horror and Mamma Mia. So far I'm all for Little Shop of Horror."

"I don't see why not. It's Friday."

"Evie said I could just go to her house after the movie is over so that Uncle Brandon doesn't have to drive all over the city."

"Aren't you and Dad going to something tomorrow?"

"Right." The memory came back to her. "Some weird company thing. Bring your daughter to work day, sort of thing. On a Saturday. A non-workday for Dad." She made a funny face. "Strange. It's from eight to three then Dad is dropping me off at work."

Callie smiled. The Not A Burger Stand had opened in a couple more places in California and one just happened to be just outside of LA, close enough for Colleen to bus, walk or take a her bike either from school or the house. "I can pick you up after work."

"Okay."

Colleen; Kaitlyn Dever

Ralf: Niles Fitch

Evie: Madelaine Petsch

Lanny: Lonnie Chavis